What Does An Electron Look Like

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[YoungGandalf]

Ah, yes, a sine wave signal generator. I keep one of those on my nightstand next to the alarm clock.

[miketheant]

Actually the best explanation of this I've ever seem

[tirthankarmishra]

Wow, resonance frequency is indeed a great analogy for quantization of energy in electron

[matthewhaskell]

“Because it’s quantized” is my new go-to excuse.

[andrewgutierrez]

The more people explain atoms to me, the less I understand

[Chippin]

This man always comes up with the best hidden explanations for everything

[MattMcIrvin]

It was really Louis de Broglie who first drew the connection between Bohr's quantized orbits and standing waves--Bohr just proposed that the electron could only have certain orbital angular momenta, no reason proposed. Bohr and Sommerfeld actually extended that idea into a pretty detailed theory of the atom, but they ran into trouble in part because their angular momenta were all off by one unit--they couldn't swallow the idea that it might make sense for the electron to have *zero* angular momentum in a stable configuration, because if you visualized that as an orbit the electron would be falling right through the nucleus.

Later, Schrödinger developed the wave idea into a full wave theory. And the zero-angular-momentum states made a bit more sense there--they were just spherically symmetrical wave functions.

[player]

You make me feel smarter and dumber at the same time.

[gomotion]

Im studying chemical Engineering for 2.5 years, have been interessted in chemistry and physics since i was a kid. And i have never seen an explanation this good and precise. Thank you!

[cinemaaxx]

this is why electrons are called "Quantum Particles" !

[orbatos]

This is a great instructional demo for demonstrating the harmonics in play here.

[Sam-yedg]

This is by far one of the best representation of that shit ngl

[siddharthjaswal]

"What does an electron look like ?"
Heisenberg : I guess we'll never know....

[zachgoldwater]

Cool demo. The resonance along a loop of wire is one-dimensional, so the harmonic functions are just sine waves with integer frequencies. If you want a harmonic function on a 2D surface, for example the surface of a sphere, the family of solutions become a lot more interesting looking. Look up “spherical harmonic functions”, and youll see that they look identical to electron orbitals! (For hydrogen, at least.)

[jmcsquared]

I have used this wave generator for years to teach standing waves but I did not know you could show a standing wave on a disk. That is gorgeous.

[ReductioAdAbsurdum]

Man I have consumed like 5, 000 hours of layman physics video and never seen this. You are amazing, and everybody else is failing.

[claudebentley]

Excellent illustration that moves us closer to a better visual than what they teach kids!

[RobertoTifi]

The best visualization I've ever seen of the electron's standing wave! Big respect 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[artistwithouttalent]

The vibrating ring is such a good way to explain going up in energy states.

[chakibchemso]

Multiples of the string's resonance frequency

Around 30 60 120 240 ~ the ones shown in this short